Tannadice was so packed out this afternoon it looked like a Rangers creditors’ meeting and the Scottish Cup tie on show didn’t disappoint. Dundee United had the better of the opening period but four second half goals from an irresistible Celtic decided outcome.
Jon Daly headed wide early on after a Willo Flood cross early on but the first great chance of the game fell to Johnny Russell on 25 minutes. Gary Mackay-Steven got free on the left and crossed for Russell who mishit his shot, allowing Fraser Forster to make an incredible save and claw the ball away.
With Dundee United clearly on top defender Robbie Neilson received a straight red card for a forearm smash into the face of Georgios Samaras.
It took Celtic 36 minutes to make an attempt on goal. Joe Ledley’s shot from a corner was blocked and James Forrest shot over from a corner seconds later.
Celtic stepped up the pace after halftime. Charlie Mulgrew jinked to create space on the left side of the United box but Ledley couldn’t reach his cross. 8 minutes after halftime the visitors were ahead after the best move of the game.
Adam Matthews passed back to Fraser Forster who played the ball out to Joe Ledley. Ledley moved forward after playing the ball onto Samaras, who passed to Mulgrew before the ball moved onto Stokes. Anthony Stokes fired a low cross into the box which Gary Hooper dummied for Ledley, who never stopped running. The midfielder won the ball by nipping in front of his marker and shot home from 7 yards.
Samaras shot over before a Stokes shot after 64 minutes from 25 yards was saved by Pernis, the first save the keeper made in the game.
United had a great chance to draw level when substitute Milos Lacny latched onto a long through ball but his shot from 16 yards was weak and off target.
Georgios Samaras made it 0-2 when he got on the end of a Mulgew free kick to bullet a header into the top right corner of the net.
Two minutes later Johnny Russell had a great chance to pull a goal back but his shot from 15 yards flew narrowly over.
Stokes should have tied the game up 11 minutes from time when James Forrest combined with Hooper before Forrest cut the ball back to Stokes, who contrived to hit the crossbar with his shot with an empty net waiting.
Samaras and Forrest both had chances to add to the scoring before Ledley threaded a pass through the middle of the United defence for Stokes to clip past Pernis into the net.
With a minute of the game remaining Samaras beat Dillon, who pulled the Greek international down inside the box. Scott Brown rolled the resultant penalty into the net to make if 0-4.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
New prog starting next Monday on Beeb called ‘Life in the Mortuary’.
Must be an I-brokes documentary!
HH
Lads did pat the rat say there will be more bad news?
I do really think that all the folk on here who clearly ‘get’ the disgraceful behaviour of the ‘media’ in the way they treat our club (evidenced by the Traynor / jacksonarticle above) …should make a real effort to dissuade other less informed supposed Celtic supporters from spending money on newspapers, and from calling these clowns on the phone in programmes.
It only encourages them……who cares what Burley / Mcleod / Provan / Jackson / Traynor / Keevins / Leckie / Nevin / English say about us or anything else……Did any of these tell you anything of any concequence that you did not know, anytime ever ???? Why give them oxygen….starve them of it now !
Craig Brown just said that Rangers problems led to their defeat v Hertz last week and so stopped his team get in the top six.
Well Lumpy Heid, if no Rangers you would be in top six.
Absolute Masonic Hun.
Well done Neil, putting the biassed Scottish media in their place . This is long overdue and what a good time to ban them till the end of the season when there is no FOOTBALL news from across the river. Let’s start with the B,B,C, and the Record and warn the rest that they will follow if the don’t behave themselves.
Evening bhoys,
i came across a copy of yesterdays sun that had been left in work,
reading through i noticed an article by Des Mckeown,
he is the first person that i have known state that if the huns come
back as a newco then they must start in division 3,is he the first to
come out with this in the media or has anyone else failed to toe
the party line
BTW Brendan Rogers….take a bow sir!
T4
T4
Strutting Peacock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwlZYSFUWIE&feature=related
listening to both Broonie and Nevin apologising for Keith’s attack on Fyvie. According to Broonie it was fyvie’s fauly because he has quick feet! Lasley sent off three times this season, ‘….a good, honest professional’
No quote sought from McColl…..
The only people that will miss and that need der hun are the MSM.
Two great games of football there today,good crowds,nice weather,decent goals and brilliant atmosphere.
And not a hun in sight,apart from the mullet,and the MSN.
They were all over the TV and the radio…so many of them,and so disappointed that their beloved R*angers were not involved.
But Scottish football needs them!
Aye,dead on Jabba.
A new song to say GIRUY
http://youtu.be/0zi4FwUGsX4
Work in the morning.
Take care and god bless all Tims out there.
HH
KTF
TET – brilliant, cheers!
T4
Anyone who saw ITV4’s docu on Messi on Wednesday night KNOWS.
Here’s a thought… Scottish cup this weekend generally accepted that there was 4 good matches. I understand level of fan unrest was low. Guess who was missing this weekend?
Is this weekend a glimpse of a happy Hun free future?
Snake Plissken on 11 March, 2012 at 23:21 said:
PMSL – Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Btw, on that documentary about Messi, Gordon Strachan also backs Messi as the best player he has ever seen. Footage shows Messi at Parkhead pulling a hamstring. WGS says, “I was delighted because I knew who ever was coming on for him, wasnt as good as him.”
CultsBhoy loves being 1st on 11 March, 2012 at 23:23 said:
Is this weekend a glimpse of a happy Hun free future?
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CultsBhoy – I frickin hope so! But I wonder what ra peepul did with their footy free weekend? (Apart from supporting the Terrors :-)
Any thoughts?
HH
Some players you may want to consider as alternatives to Maradonna- maybe some odd ones here.
Lothar Matthaus- 1990 European Player of the year and World Soccer player of the year, 1991 first ever FIFA World player of the year. Played in the World Cup 1982,1986,1990, 1994. 1998 and has played more World Cup games tha any other player-EVER. Also Played at Euro 80, 84, 88 and 2000. In 1999 he was voted German player of the year at 38, and is the most capped German player of all time with 150 caps. Maradonna described him as his greatest ever opponent!
Eusebio- Winner of 11 Portuguese titles, and scorer of 638 goals in 614 games. Winner of Balon D’or 1965 and runner up on two further occasions. Winner of the Golden Boot in 1968 anmd 1973. Winner of the Bola de Prata ( top scorer in Portugal ) a record 7 times between 1964 and 1973, top scorer at the 1966 World Cup with 9 Goals. He has been voted the greatest ever Portuguese Footballer, and among the top ten players in World Soccer of all time.
Johan Cruyff- Winner of the Balon D’or 1971,1973 and 1974 ( a feat only shared with Lionel Messi, Platini ) and was voted European Player of the Century in 1999 and second behind Pele in the World Player of the Century poll- although he was relegated to third in the World Player of the century vote taken by former Balon D’or winners consulted by France Football magazine. Between 1964 and 1973 he scored an amazing 190 goals in 240 games for Ajax before moving to Barcelona, and scored 33 times in his 48 International appearances for Holland.
Wolfgang Overath- ok an outsider but THE ultimate team player in the Modern game. Overath played a total of 765 times for FC KOln in the German Bundesliga between 1962 and 1977 scoring 287 Goals. Koln were an unfashionable team and as a result he won only one Bundesliga title and one German cup in 1964 and 1968 respectively. However he excelled in a german national team full of Superstars and his creative midfield play made him an automatic choice when not injured. He played 81 times for Germany collecting a World Cup winners medal, a second place medal and a third place medal. he would have made even more appearances for Germany if not injured, and had he not lost his place for a while to a relatively talented guy called Gunter Netzer. However, his form was so good that he eventually recovered his place from Netzer and kept it permanently with Netzer- as brilliant as he was- being described as a “Poor man’s Overath”!
Luigi Riva- leading scorer in Italy between 1966/67 and 1969/70, he is the all time leading goal scorer for Italy, scoring 35 times in 42 Internationals. Riva’s career was all the more amazing because he was regularly injured, often missing matches because of serious injury. He refused a move to Juventus in 1973 and chose to spend his whloe career with Cagliari where he won only one Scudetto. However such was his legendary status at the club that his is the only shirt number (11) that has ever been permanently retired. Riva is the great waht might have been………..
Giani Rivera– winner of the Balon D’or in 1969, having been second behind Lev yasshin in 1962, Rivera was the greatest passer of the football in Italian football history. He played 502 times for AC Milan scoring 122 Goals from midfield. With 60 Italian caps and 14 goals he played in 4 World Cups- 1962,1966, 1970 and 1974- and would have played more times for Italy had successive managers not taken the view that he could not play beside Sandro Mazzola- you had to play one or the other. He holds a record in that he made his Serie A debut at 15 and later won several Scudettos, a European Cup at 18 and would later win both the European Chamionships and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1968. The following year brought the big Cup. In the next few years he would miss several key games as a result of being banned by the Italian League for his public comments on the abilities or the corruption of referees! He won his last Scudetto in 1979. He is now a long serving member of The European Parliament.
For later:
Ferenc Puskas
Alfredo Di Stefano
Ronaldhino
Zico
Gerd Muller
Ruud Gullit
Marco van Basten
Garincha
Gordon Banks
Michel Platini
Franz Beckenbaur
Dino Zoff
Paulo Maldini
Paul Breitner
Bobby Charlton
Allesandro del Piero
a few others
and
Andy Ritchie!
seventyxseven ‘gelee et glace’ on 11 March, 2012 at 23:26 said
messi at the nou camp
remember it because a mate of mine shouted boo hoo in front of a bar load of barca fans
and then we seen him in tears – not funny but its 1 of them things you remember
I watched Pele and Maradona many many times and they were fabulous ….. but Messi is the best the World will ever see……..he makes it look so easy…he has every skill in the book, and his brain is so far ahead…….in every game I watch, I am in awe of this wonderful football player……..and he is so modest……in this respect, he reminds me of Henrik…..A TRUE PROFESSIONAL.
Anyone know what our fans are singing to the tune of ‘let’s call the whole thing off’
Árd Macha
BRTH – agree with you about Andy Ritchie….the idle idol !
Re the Vanessa appeal, can I ask you to mail me at my blog name @gmail.com
HH
TTTT
The BBC urney daft, they know once the Hoops have been on the main show is over, and we all switch off. So keep us till last…kinda makes sense? Or they’re just nasty gits!
Ard Macha – don’t know what it is, but it’s a pain in the jacksie!
T4
quick catch up:
DM vs LM: messi is a CLASS APART and will, if he continues to preform at his current rate/ level, be the best ever, no matter what he does at the World Cup. but he’ll need to continue to produce for a long while yet
great to see celtic through to next round of the scottish, keep up the good work bhoys
someone said celtic should sell player for £6 million to bring in a quality centreback and forward in the summer. i agree we need both players, but if we sell a player for that money wont it be one of our good players?
i would maybe sell ki if the money on offer was good
we have a raft of players in the squad that can go before we think about moving on our better players though, e.g. wilson, cha, o’dea, dan, loovens, thompson, mcginn, mccourt, murphy, radmussion
TBH i would rather keep the good players we have until we empty those above and replace with one or two additions max.
BRTH
The best player I have seen in a live game was Giani Rivera,but much as I admire the wonderful Messi,Pele has no equal.Slan
One for the huns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEPfSWk0Lsw
Ah hid a talk the ither day wi’ Ma auld Pal
Professor Zeezick.
He knows Sir Paul, Weel.. and Sir Paul, knows him.. as .. well.. Weel!
Professor Zeezick is oor resident.. Economics Guru..
Here ,at the Ranch..
After patiently listenin tae Ma Recountin o’ the present G.A.cash flow, “Troubles”.. which oor rivals are experiencin’, just noo..
The Good Professor, looked me in the eye.. and said..
“Do tell!”
and Ah said Tae Him..
“Ah Jist did. Wur ye no listenin’?”
“Sure Ah wiz,dear Bhoy.. Ah hoid every Woid…
But, enuff o’ this Sparrin’… Ah am sure that Ye wid like ma Opinion. oan How Ah wid solve.. these … “Troubles”, that are Makin the G.A. Supporters so Miserable and Unhappy..
Am Ah correct?”
“Well,pal. Ah widnae go as far as THAT!
Ah hiv not the slightest interest in Asking ye tae go THAT FAR!
Howevahhh..
Hypothetically Speaking,,, like..
How wid ye go aboot Solving the G.A. Cash flow Problem..
Speaking, Academically,of course.. Like…”
Ah see.. Alright, then..
Strictly .. Considering this Matter..in the Manner of an Academical Project…and therefore.. from a purely Accademe Perspective..
If Ah wiz asked tae provide a Solution tae this Vexing Problem,
with which the G.A is noo..unfortunately…. Encumbered..
Ah wid Approach the G.A. Problem o’ it’s Anaemic Cash Flow..in Much the Same
Way.. IF YE REMEMBER, that Faur Back?
As Ah did..
When Ah revived Bill Clinton’s .. Household Finances.. when he discovered that ..owing tae his over Fondness fur eagerly engagin’ in… “Extra-Curricular
Activities.. shall we say..
He wiz fast runnin oota.. Hush Money… Which, He Needed tae.. well.. Hush…his String o’ Bimbos..and Tae Keep thur Bed Room Doors, Open..
And… thur Mooths.. Shut!”
Exactly,pal. So.. Wid ye Please refresh Ma memory, oan jist how ye Re- Invigorated. Slick Willie’s Financial Health… Ah seemed tae hiv
Furgoat.
Well.. It wiz like this..
Ah told Willie, tae Get intae the Boomin’.. at that time..
Pumpkin.. Market..
Fur… Demand, wuz Up.. and Supply wiz , Doon.
A Classic Opportunity fur a Guy who Knew his way aroon a Pumpkin Patch.. tae Mak a Killin’,in the Market..
At that Time Thur wuz a shortage o’ Pumpkins.
and, As Hallow-een wus Fast approachin’..Thur wus a Gaping Need,tae be filled..by that kinda Guy.
O.K.. Ah follow ye.. so.. Wit did Ye advise Willie tae Dae
Ah told him that Ah Happened tae Know the Location o . .a
Pumpkin Patch in .. In DogPatch.. Tennessee…
DogPatch..That name is Familiar..
Is that No where.. Li’L Abner and Daisy Mae.. Comfae?”
” The Same”
“Well.. Go oan.. wi the Story…”
Ye may no be aware o’ this.. but…
At the time , when Ah wiz gien.. Willie, the benefit o Ma Financial Acumen..
Ah Happened tae Know, that..
Nearly Every scrap o land..in Good ole Dogpatch.. U.S.A.
Hid bin Planted wi..Acres and Acres
O’
Pumpkins.!
Oan account …that the Year… BEFORE.. the Pumpkin Season.
which we are discussin’…
which wid be….Two Years ,back…
Nae Buddy,in Dog Patch, but Auld . Granny May.. and Cousin Zeke.. hid thought tae Plant Any… Pumpkins.
so.. As Ye might hiv expected..
Auld Granny.. and Cousin Zeke.. made a Fortune…as They owned awe the Pumpkins, that wur available.. at Harvest Time.. In
Good Ole Dogpatch U.S.A.
So. Jist like.. The Guid..Ole British Economist.. Mr. David Ricardo.. Discovered, and wrote aboot…way back in the 1700s…
Whit Discovery, did.. Mr. Ricardo Mak , then.. ?? Ah interrupted..
Well, Mr. Ricardo.. Happened tae be Talkin ‘ aboot..the Raisin’
O’ Pigs.. Not Pumpkins. but, whit he fun oot.. aboot the BASIC CAUSE..o’ the Price Gyrations in the Pork Market.
wid also.. apply tae .. well.. the Pumpkin Market, tae.”
Owing tae the Fact, that a Fortune wiz made, by only A Coupla Planters.. like Auld Granny and Cousin Zeke..who were Alone… In Growing . .Pumpkins..
that Particular season..
Then..
Every farmer.. in Guid ole Dog Patch.. U.S.A.
Made sure that His ONLY Crop.. This Year..wid be.. well…
PUMPKINS..fur,
Every Farmer , hid the exact same Idea.. that.. this Year.. He widnae be
Locked oota the Lucrative.. Pumpkin Market..
And because of wan of the First Laws.. of Economics..
The wan… known as
The Law o’ Supply and Demand.. That wid Automatically Kick in.
and.. well .. Pumpkins.. or….Pig Bellies… in Over Supply…
Wid be priced according tae the Demand and ..well… the Supply.
So..Jist like Mr.Ricardo discovered.. aboot the Greed o’ Pig Farmers..and whit they did.. the Following Year.. of a Bullish Year in the English Pork Belly Market
Human Nature, wiznae any different.. among the Denizens..of Guid Old Dogpatch.. U.S.A…as it wuz among the English PIg Farmers..o’ the 1700.s
and..the Guid farmers o’ Good Old Dogpathc..U.S.A….. proved tae be… Jist as.. GREEDY!
So. getting back tae the Pumpkin Market , in Guid Ole Dogpatch.. U.S.A.
In that Particular Season, when . Ah advised Slick Willie tae get intae
The Pumpkin Biz…
The Price o’ Pumpkins wiz lower than … Whitey’s Reputation fur.. Honesty… because.. like Ah told ye.. this Particular Pumpkin Crop
wiz in Abbondanza..owing tae the Gross Over-Planting o that Decumbent Vine.. Concurbita Pepo!
Wait, a minute.. Professor. so far Ah follow ye .. but,
At that beginning o’ this. Ye said that
The Pumpkn Market wiz Boomin’…oan account o’ a Severe
Shoartage of Pumpkins..
and Noo ye tell me.. that In Good Ole DogPatch..U.S.A.
the Price o’ Pumpkins is Lower than a Snakes Belly..
because of the Gross OVER SUPPLY .. in them.
So.. whit am Ah missin .. Here?”
Ye urnae Missing ,Anything, My friend.. You have ,indeed
goat awe yer facts Straight..
Howevahhh.
That Being said…
What you are Unaware o’… is that Naebuddy, But Ma Guid Sel.and Ma guid freen.. Alyss Le Fey..
Knows where . Good Ole Dogpatch.. is!
fur…
It’s Location does not appear oan Any Map..
Thanks fur Clearing that Up, Professor..
Noo.. Cairry oan wi yer story..
Ah gave Slick Willie… detailed and explicit . Directions.oan How tae Get tae .. Good Old Dogpatch.. U.S.A.
Which Ah wullnae Relate, here…
And..Aff he went.. in his New Nissan Pick-up.. Truck.
Tae collect, a Truckload o’ Pumpkins..
Several Days Later..Ah received a Letter which arrived by Carrier Pigeon.fae .. Willie.. who wiz noo.. safely esconced in .. Good Old Dogpatch.. U.S.A.
And it read..
“Arrived here in Good Old Dogpatch U.S.A. .. stoap…
Price of Pumpkins.. His Risen.. Stoap.
An unexpected.. Ootbreak o’ Fatal Pumpkin Disease.. his
well.. OOTBROKE! . here, in Guid Old DogPatch U.S.A. Stoap..
Tae buy at these High Prices. wull Kill Ma Profit Margin. ..Stoap.
Whit dae ye suggest the Ah dae,noo?
Willie..”
Ah sent back.. by return Carrier Pigeon.. the Following..
“Shucks, Willie.. Whit is the Maitter wi ye Thinkin’!
‘Whit wull Ye dae? ye ask?
Why.. that’s easy…
Get a Bigger Truck!”
Brilliant, Professor.. Sheer.. Brilliance… Ah Am Impressed!
It wiz nothing.. and noo..
Tae get back Me tae gien ye.. Ma Solution. tae the Low Cash Flow Problem, which oor Rivals are Sufferin Fae..
Here is whit Ah suggest that The G.A. dae tae
INCREASE thur Cash Flow..
And.. May Ah add.. that If they Do exactly whit Ah tell ’em…they sure wull Increase Thur Cash Flow..
O.K. Professor.. Ah am very curious tae find oot whit yer
Advice oan alleviating that Problem o their’s wid Be..
The Solution tae The G.A.s Problem, is Elementary,Ma Dear Bhoy..
They should..
Raise thur Admission Prices..and Build a Bigger Stadium!
Kojo
Laughin’ like Heidi.
Good Night, folks!
p.s be surprised if chris commons is at celtic after the summer
cant do the link thing, but why isnt there a similar celebration here??
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-17275827
I think its a little churlish to say Rooney is not a good player or that there are not good players in England, I thought Aquero and Gareth Bale were both amongst the best ten players in the world currently (not all time,lol).
I would also say that to say Christiano Ronaldo is useless is a little over the top, for example I think he is a better striker than our Gary Hooper or probably any other striker in the SPL.
Yes Messi is better than Ronaldo but if we were to play against Ronaldo we would not be able to get near him in terms of ability. I mean We could not match Messi in a game but we couldn’t even get anywhere near to Ronaldo either so that makes Ronaldo a fairly skilful player too.
Also I think Messi is more than good enough for England and I don’t think anyone in England with half a brain cell has questioned if he is good enough for the EPL.
I think we should be careful of treating English people like they are arrogant, this may be true for some, but so is it true for some Scots and Irish and welsh, generalisations are demeaning to those who generalize and those who are generalized.
The fact that a 24yr old is being debated as the best player EVER is incredible.
We have the privilege of being able to watch him play every time he takes to the pitch. He is consistently outstanding and is only going to improve.
I love the world cup but I think the champions league is as tough a competition to perform in. He’s scored goals in finals, single handedly destroyed real Madrid at the bernabeu several times too.
He is the best player of his generation without doubt. Very hard to compare with maradona/pele but because we can see how amazing he is every game – he MUST be the best player ever. I don’t think he needs a world cup medal to prove that. 3 balon d’or’s in a row and he’s still very young.
Interesting question is….
Just what is this guy gonna be like in 3 or 4 years time??
Remember John Stein:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syPPrz6t1PQ
The Greatest ever.
Cold in his shadow?
They are freezing to death.
GBNL.
Slan.
Antifa on 11 March, 2012 at 23:42 said:
Rooney is a good player no doubt, but the likes of peter reid telling us that he is up with Messi as one of the best in the world and then telling us the other night that messi cant be considered as one of the best until he wins a world cup, is just jaw dropping
Messi is the best in the world without a doubt – all time best? not much between him and maradona, and Messi is only 23/24 – as long as he dosent do a fowler or owen he should be ok
tell you what, i’d take messi for celtic if he ever fancied a change lol!, but then i’d take pele and maradona as well and both can collect a pension
Antrim Kev
I watched the documentary about Messi and was reduced to tears at times. His story is amazing.
I posted on here afterwards that it made the ‘future of scottish football’ crapumentaries look awful. Jabba sitting pontificating about football – the sheer gall of it!! – then watching Messi being trained “to think.”
Showed me how much these BLAND people have held us back.
stephbhoy on 11 March, 2012 at 23:38 said:
p.s be surprised if chris commons is at celtic after the summer
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when i seen him coming on with that raging face with a few minutes to go i thought that too
he looked genuinley happy about coming on today
thats what a winning team does